Cops and Robbers (1993 film)

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Cops and Robbers
Directed byMurray Reace
Written byTim Bean
Starring Grant Dodwell
Rima Te Wiata
Mark Wright
Release date
  • 1993 (1993)
CountriesAustralia
New Zealand
LanguageEnglish

Cops and Robbers is a 1993 Australian-New Zealand film about a bankrupt man who embarks on a career of crime. [1]

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References

  1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p30